Iowa Core Essential Concepts and Skills
The Iowa Core Essential Concepts and Skills under Social Studies/Behavioral Science, identifies the essential concepts and skills that all students must experience in the content areas of social studies and 21st Century Skills . These concepts and skills provide a framework to incorporate in the curriculum the multicultural gender fair mandates of the Iowa Administrative Code 281-12.5 (8).
Iowa Core Essential Concepts and Skills
Social Studies
Essential Concepts and/or Skills for Grades K-2
Behavioral Sciences
- Understand the changing nature of society.
- Understand all people have individual traits.
- Understand interactions between self and the peer group.
- Understand the relationship of the individual to the components of society and culture.
Essential Concepts and/or Skills for Grades 3-5
Behavioral Sciences
- Understand the changing nature of society.
- Understand the influences on individual and group behavior and group decision making.
- Understand how personality and socialization impact the individual.
- Understand the process of how humans develop, learn, adapt to the environment, and internalize their culture.
- Understand current social issues to determine how the individual formulates opinions and responds to issues.
- Understand how to evaluate social research and information.
Essential Concepts and/or Skills for Grades 6-8
Behavioral Sciences
- Understand the changing nature of society.
- Understand how personality and socialization impact the individual.
- Understand the influences on individual and group behavior and group decision making.
- Understand the process of how humans develop, learn, adapt to the environment, and internalize their culture.
- Understand current social issues to determine how the individual is able to formulate opinions and respond to those issues.
- Understand how to evaluate social research and information
Essential Concepts and/or Skills for Grades 9-12
Behavioral Sciences
- Understand the historical development of the behavioral sciences and the changing nature of society.
- Understand the influences on individual and group behavior and group decision making.
- Understand the appropriate research procedures and skills of the behavioral scientist.
- Understand current social issues to determine how the individual formulates opinions and responds to those issues.
- Understand how social status, social groups, social change, and social institutions influence individual and group behaviors.
- Understand the process of how humans develop, learn, adapt to their environment, and internalize their culture.
- Understand how personality and agents of socialization impact the individual.